The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-18
SIZES KNOWN HERE,
ailfs vanZandt, OF Chicago, Spies. Sweet.
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II can be well said that Wheeling has m
extensive acquaintance. There Is hardly
a public man Of any note In the country
who Is not known personally by more or
LEES Wheelingitea or else has been here on
some political or mercantile Grand, and
everyone knows him, and 1t Is seldom that
the country 10 aroused by any ssnsatlon
but what It Is possible to learn that Wheel.
ing people are either in It, or else Wheel.
Ing has at some time In the history Of
those prominently identified with tho
scandal, accident or whatever 1t 10, figured
IA their home or abiding place for time.
: Tho case Of Miss Nina Clarke Van
Z.ndt, Of Chicago, is at present taking up
somo space In the preas Of the country.
She Is q very. handsome young woman,
about % years old, tn, daughter OF re-.
spectacle parents who are In good circum.
stances, her father being a member
Of the Chicago firm Of James s.
Kirk & Co. Her parents are
Preabytsrians, but abe 10 reported
to be an Atheist, a membsr Of that ma
tsrialistic, idealist school to which 60
many Of thesChicago Anarchists belong,
and with one Of tho chiefs Of whom, Au.
gust Spies, one Of those condemned to
death, Miss Van Zlndt Is desperately in
love, and to whom she insists that ehe will
be married some time this weok. gI,4fE
Miss Van z sndt Ia quite well known
here In Wheeling. About two years age
last fall, just after she had graduated from
Vassar, she came here in company with
hsr aunt, Mrs. John Arthur, Of near Pitts!
burgh, and they remained here for over
two weeks, the guests of, the family Of q
prominent and wsli.known citizen who
residua on 'Ohapline street. 1tWhile here
she attracted general attention, BY her
style and beauty and made q number oil
friends and admirers who. will remember
her with pleasure, and bs shocked to learn
OF, her mad infatuation for the despicable
Spies. While Miss Van Z.ndt ,waa here
nhe made one particular friend out Of q
young lady, with whom she corresponded
regularly after she went home. During
the trial Of the Anarchists Miss Van Z4ndt
wrote to her friend here that Hhe was al.
tending tho trials daily and that Bhe sym.
pathized deeply with the prisoners.
Miss Van Zsnd. is also well known to
the people Of that fashionable Pittsburgh
quarter, the East End. She was recently
there attending tho grand wedding Of
Miss Walker, a sister Of Mrs. George
Westinghouse and was greatly admired
Tor her beauty aud refined manner.
. Her engagement to Spies is only oil
about one weeks duration. All the
counting YVES done in the Chicago jail,
through tho bars Of the cage in which
prisoners gre put when they arc allowed
TO ses their friends. To say the least, II
is very strange case. The License
Clerk has refused to grant mar,is8e Ii.
cense, holding that Spies being convicted
Of a. felony is sufficient ground for his
refusal. ,1,tg, III, !, l.sG,% Png
In this dilemma Miss Van Z.ndt has
summoned to her assistance her grand.
father, William q. Clarke, OF Pittsburgh
now retired, who has been in the past one
Of the most prominent lawyers at the al.
legheny county bar. Miss Van z sndt has
all along been considered hairess to large
estatoa in Pittsburgh which she may lose
now. i1-flF 's';5, w. ~ ~
| Mr.. Van Zlndt says be ofIers no objec.
ton to the marriage because his daughter
Is bent upon it, and he desires nothing 80
much as To make her happy, and that,
though he abhors the principles Of the
Anaschista, he likes Spies personally. g